Question is whether there's serious evidence against creepy Joe, is it substantial?--yes, election-interference is not fair, bad habit for incumbents

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Trump hush money trial is blatant election interference designed to keep him off the campaign trail​

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Link: https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/04/trump-hush-money-trial-is-blatant.html/

It is becoming increasingly obvious that President Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial is little more than an attempt to prevent him from suc...​

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It is becoming increasingly obvious that President Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial is little more than an attempt to prevent him from successfully campaigning for president, with the trial not only seeking to damage his reputation and potentially put him behind bars but also physically keeping him off the campaign trail.

Trump is the first former American president to stand trial on criminal charges. The trial relates to alleged hush money payments that were made by his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election. Cohen claims that he paid Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about an alleged affair that she had with Trump, although Trump has denied having a relationship with her. Cohen pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud, bank fraud and campaign finance violations in 2018 and served 2 1/2 years in a federal prison.

Last year, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records and said the former president tried “to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election.” He pleaded not guilty to all counts.

Federal prosecutors had previously investigated this matter and declined to charge him over the alleged payments.

After court adjourned on Monday, Trump called the trial a “scam” and a “political witch hunt,” and there are several aspects of the case that support his belief that the court system is being used to interfere with his chances in the election.

First, the judge presiding over the trial, New York Judge Juan Merchan, has been a controversial choice given his daughter’s close work with Democrat politicians through her marketing company and his own alleged hostility toward Trump. This is a violation of state law barring judges from trials in which they or someone in their “six degrees of separation” has a financial interest in the outcome. Trump and his lawyers have requested that Merchan recuse himself, but he insists there is no reason to do so.

Judge requires Trump's presence in court for every day of his trial​

He has also said that Trump is required to appear in court for each day of his trial, and any failures to show up will result in a warrant being issued for his arrest. With the trial expected to last for at least six weeks, with just a few days off, this means he will not be able to go on the campaign trail and reach out to voters the way his opposition, President Joe Biden can, putting him at a disadvantage in the election.

The judge has already denied requests by Trump’s defense team to excuse him from being present at the trial next Thursday so he can attend arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in his presidential immunity case, and the judge has not yet responded to a request to be excused to attend his son Barron’s high school graduation ceremony on May 17.

Moreover, Merchan has warned Trump that should he disrupt proceedings in any way, he will be held in contempt of court and possibly removed from the courtroom. He has also been banned from making or directing other individuals to make public statements regarding witnesses and others involved in his case, such as court staff, nor can he make or direct other people to make public statements about selected and potential jurors. Prosecutors have already accused him of violating the gag order three times.

It’s clear that they are trying to find some way to keep Trump from being a viable candidate for the presidency. In fact, many believe the trial is already rigged to find him guilty, so it doesn’t matter if they find a reason to charge him for his conduct in court – they are going to try to throw him in jail one way or another.

 

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Judge Cannon reveals conspiracy between Biden and National Archives to prosecute President Trump. Julie Kelly has the unredacted, down and dirty receipts.​

April 23, 2024 8:10 am by CWR

Link: https://citizenwatchreport.com/judg...y-has-the-unredacted-down-and-dirty-receipts/

The unredacted evidence revealing collaboration between the Biden White House, Department of Justice, and National Archives and Records Administration sheds light on potential political interference in the Trump investigation. These revelations underscore the importance of judicial oversight and transparency in safeguarding the integrity of legal proceedings.

• Newly unredacted evidence reveals collaboration between the Biden White House, Department of Justice (DOJ), and National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in developing a criminal case against Trump.
• The evidence suggests that NARA was working with the DOJ and White House to craft a criminal referral as early as September 2021, five months before the official referral in February 2022.
• The Department of Energy (DOE) was also implicated in the cover-up, retroactively terminating Trump’s security clearance after the indictment was handed down by Jack Smith.

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Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s statement implies that the trials are political.

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Unsealed docs expose early collaboration between Archives, Biden White House in Trump prosecution​

One Rule For Me, Another for Thee? The newly unsealed documents provide the latest evidence indicating disparate by government's treatment in Trump and Biden's respective classified documents cases.

Link: https://justthenews.com/accountabil...en-wh-coordinated-trump-probe?utm_source=mux/

By John Solomon and Steven Richards
Published: April 23, 2024 11:00pm
Updated: April 23, 2024 11:07pm

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Just weeks after learning Joe Biden had improperly retained government documents, his administration began working with federal bureaucrats in spring and fall 2021 to increase pressure on Donald Trump for similar issues and eventually prompt a criminal prosecution of the 45th president, according to government memos newly unsealed by a federal judge.
The correspondence, released this week by U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon in Florida, provide the the most extensive accounting so far of how the Biden White House worked with federal bureaucrats to escalate pressure on Trump to return documents to the National Archives even as it slow-walked similar issues involving its own boss.
One email dated May 5, 2021, shows the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) had already consulted the Biden White House about missing Trump records, more than a year before the public would learn that the former president president had kept some classified memos.
“I have had several conversations with [Person 40] since the end of the Trump Administration about various paper records that he believes were not transferred to us,” NARA General Counsel Gary Stern wrote to his colleagues in one May email.

"Person 40" was not identified by name in the document but was listed as working for the Biden White House in the Records Management Office, according to a motion filed by Trump’s lawyers in the case, which was previously redacted.
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Case 9.23-cr-80101-AMC Document 469.pdf

On August 30, 2021, NARA Archivist David Ferriero began to press Trump records representatives more explicitly about the documents, vowing to make referrals to “the Hill, DOJ, and the White House” if the documents had been destroyed or where not turned over soon.
“As you have seen in the press, the House has requested records,” Ferriero writes in one email chain. “Our ability to respond requires access to the 24 boxes which have yet to be accounted for. At this point, I am assuming that they have been destroyed. In which case, I am obligated to report it to the Hill, DOJ, and the White House.”
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Case 9.23-cr-80101-AMC Document 469-1.pdf

By September 2021, Stern had decided to draft a criminal referral against Trump to the Justice Department after documents were still not returned, according to an FBI interview summary with a NARA employee, identified as “Person 53” in the court documents.
“Stern approached [Per. 53] to formally draft a letter to DOJ raising concerns about PRA materials from the TRUMP administration which remained unaccounted for by NARA,” the FBI memo stated.
In his interview with the FBI, Person 53 noted in his “years of experience,” he “understood NARA never had to make such a referral to DOJ…to accomplish such an ask.”
When he circulated the draft letter internally, Stern told colleagues he had been in contact with “DOJ counsel” about the matter and was continuing to communicate with the White House Counsel’s Office, showing the Biden administration was in the loop about the efforts to repossess Trump’s documents.
“In addition, [White House] Counsel is now also aware of the issue, and has asked that I keep them in the loop to the extent that we make any reference to the White House Office of Records Management,” Stern wrote in the email.
While NARA and the White House were engaging DOJ on Trump, Biden aides were trying to figure out what to do with memos Biden kept at his University of Pennsylvania Biden Center office in Washington, some which turned out to be classified.
In March 2021, Annie Tomasini, an assistant to Biden, traveled to the Penn Biden Center to take inventory of documents, according to a House Oversight Committee letter. The Biden White House previously claimed that classified documents were “unexpected[ly] disover[ed]” on November 2, 2022, more than a year after Tomasini’s first visit to the center.
NARA did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Just the News for itself or its General Counsel Gary Stern. The White House also declined to respond for a request for comment.
The new documents provide fresh contrasts in how the Biden administration dealt differently with the discovery of improperly-retained documents by the president and his political rival, Trump.
Sen. Ron Johnson, the top Republican on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, told the "Just the News, No Noise" television show on Tuesday night that the new memos confirm Trump and Biden were treated differently by federal bureaucrats.
Trump was eventually indicted, while Biden escaped criminal charges in part because prosecutors believed he'd be viewed as old and forgetful by a jury. "It's just another outrageous example of the dual system of justice and just the partisan nature within these agencies," Johnson said.
"President Biden gets let off scot free because I guess it's because he's senile. .... President Trump is being prosecuted to the full extent of the law, because he's Donald Trump," the Wisconsin senator said.
The court documents make clear that NARA collaborated and shared periodic updates with both Biden White House officials and Department of Justice officials throughout 2021 and 2022 as their efforts to retrieve classified documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property progressed.
By late January 2022, Stern “consulted” with Deputy White House Counsel, Jonathan Su, who referred the NARA officials directly to the Department of Justice, specifically Associate Deputy Attorneys General Emily Loeb and David Newman.
According to the FBI interview memo, Newman told NARA to refer the matter to both the Archives Inspector General office and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Eventually, the NARA Inspector General would send the referral back to the DOJ, to the Public Integrity Section, according to the court documents.
The case against the former president was ultimately born from this referral. Later that year, Attorney General Merrick Garland would approve an official investigation into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents. He appointed Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee the criminal investigation in November 2022.
Previously, Just the News reported that then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su was engaged in conversations with the FBI, DOJ, and the National Archives as early as April 2022, shortly after Trump and his associates voluntarily returned 15 boxes of classified documents and other presidential records to the agency. Now, according to the dates referenced in the court documents, these contacts started months earlier.
In Just the News’s previous reporting, documents showed the Biden White House was engaged in conversations with the FBI, DOJ, and National Archives to facilitate access to the documents for investigators probing the former president’s handling of classified documents, despite publicly claiming it had no prior knowledge before the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
In a letter sent on May 10, 2022, sent to Trump’s lawyers, by acting National Archivist Debra Steidel Wall summarized the Biden White House’s involvement in the probe.
"On April 11, 2022, the White House Counsel's Office — affirming a request from the Department of Justice supported by an FBI letterhead memorandum — formally transmitted a request that NARA provide the FBI access to the 15 boxes for its review within seven days, with the possibility that the FBI might request copies of specific documents following its review of the boxes," Wall wrote to Trump defense attorney Evan Corcoran.
The letter also revealed that Biden gave the National Archives to the power to waive any claims of executive privilege Trump may assert against any DOJ attempts to gain access to the documents.
“The Counsel to the President has informed me that, in light of the particular circumstances presented here, President Biden defers to my determination, in consultation with the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, regarding whether or not I should uphold the former President's purported 'protective assertion of executive privilege,'" Wall wrote. "... I have therefore decided not to honor the former President's 'protective' claim of privilege.”

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